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HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE
‘WAVES OF THE FUTURE’ WILL RECEIVE NEW NAME AND NEW LOCATION AT VICTORY THEATRE, JUNE 13.
Evansville, IN – John McNaughton, a local artist and former USI Art Department Chair created a sculpture over two decades ago that has become a staple of Victory Theatre’s Sixth Street Lobby. Created from walnut, McNaughton originally was commissioned for $8,000 from Bristol-Meyers Squibb where it hung in the lobby of the Evansville offices until came down for remodeling and donated to Evansville. ‘Waves of the Future’ spent three years in storage until this 16-foot-long wooden sculpture found its home on the East wall of Victory Theatre’s Sixth Street Lobby.
On June 13, 2017, ‘Waves of the Future’ will become ‘Showtime’ and will be given a more visible placement with more protection inside Victory Theatre. This piece, made of walnut because this region is known for its Walnut Trees, was originally created, and named to represent how close the piece was to the river and the indicative of the future of medicine. The new name, ‘Showtime,’ will represent the variety of shows that are held at Victory Theatre. Today, if McNaughton was asked to create this same rhythmic tubular wooden design, it would be commissioned for anywhere between $20,000 to $25,000.
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FALLS BY STATE REPRESENTATIVES WENDY McNAMARA
Each month, Hoosiers continue to see our unemployment rate fall. Right now, Indiana’s statewide unemployment rate is 3.6 percent, lower than the national average (4.4) and all four bordering states. Economists generally agree a rate below 5 percent indicates a strong economy.  Recently, the Department of Workforce Developmentreleased local unemployment rates, and these promising numbers prove that Indiana is moving in the right direction.
This past April, Posey County’s unemployment rate was 2.4 percent, down from 3.9 in April 2016. In Vanderburgh County, the unemployment rate went from 4.1 percent to 2.5, year-over-year.
It’s encouraging to see more Hoosiers working than ever before. By 2022, it is estimated there will be nearly 1 million additional jobs that need to be filled in Indiana. The General Assembly recently created a new law to ensure that Indiana continues to have a strong and growing workforce, by establishing Workforce Ready Grants for high-value occupational certificates.
These grants will cover any remaining costs after state and federal financial aid for students pursing a certification required in a high-demand, high-wage job. With this law, we hope to encourage non-traditional students to seek certified training or go back to college and complete their degree under the Adult Student Grant.
Along with these investments, this new state policy maintains that all workforce development programs are working together and their performance is being tracked. Overall, this focused approach provides Hoosiers with more immediate results, ensuring that our efforts are producing lasting and comprehensive improvements to Indiana’s workforce development system.
Nonetheless, there is still work to be done as we strive to make Indiana the ideal place to build a career, start a business and raise a family.
A RARE DAY By Jim Redwine
Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine
www.jamesmredwine.com
(Week of 12 June 2017)
A RARE DAY
James Russell Lowell (1818 to 1891) was the American poet best known for, “And what is as rare as a day in June.†The term “rare†is often used by poets from Lowell to Shakespeare to mean “fineâ€, that is, good. In Lowell’s poem The Vision of Sir Launfal, Lowell prattles on about perfect days with green grass and giddy flitting critters. He celebrates “dandelions blossoming†and “happy creatures†visiting us in droves. Apparently he was not visited by Southern Indiana’s Buffalo Gnats, giant mosquitoes and a spouse who views the appearance of June as the starting gate for indentured servitude by husbands.
I dread June each year because I know Peg is convinced Mother Nature’s sole purpose for me is to spend June battling vicious insects while doing yard work and cleaning out our nine year old above ground pool.
This past weekend while I sat in repose on our three-season porch drinking coffee Peg announced, “Jim, it is June (I knew that) and the gods ordain the pool must be opened.â€
I responded, “Uh.â€
Peg was already gathering gloves and Clorox and stiff brooms. I felt my entire summer oozing away in the sludge of a winter’s worth of slime that had accumulated in the pool.
About the only pleasure I received was my stifled glee when Peg raised the trash can I had placed over the pool’s pump and a Tyrannosaurus rex disguised as a mouse jumped out. That’s the highest I had ever seen Peg jump until about ten minutes later when as we pulled off the plastic pool cover a spider the size of a saucer scurried past her hand.
I looked at the dark goo in the pool and suggested either the EPA and/or NSA should be notified. It looked to me as if the release of the frightening biosphere contained in the bottom of the pool might need disinfectant that only our federal government has access to.
After two gallons of Clorox and an hour of scrubbing the cover and the pool with a stiff broom Peg mercifully announced we would have to allow the sun to cure what diseases we had been unable to eradicate. She also suggested we would be able to swim in this one-time cesspool next week. Not so fast say I.
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UE’S ENGINEERING OPTIONS SUMMER CAMP FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS
UE’s annual engineering OPTIONS summer career exploration camp for middle school girls is Sunday, June 11-Wednesday, June 14.
Campers take mini-classes; see engineers and scientists in action; and participate in fun activities including building and launching rockets.
The event organizer says that activities during the day on Tuesday will be very visual.
The rockets will be built Monday morning and tested/launched Wednesday morning. A complete schedule of the week’s events is attached.
For more information on the camps, go to www.evansville.edu/options
Adopt A Pet
Charlie is an 11-month-old female black Lab/German Shepherd mix. She is very energetic, and will need a patient, active family! She’s one of those dogs that may end up walking you, but she is eager to please and would love someone to teach her how to channel her energy into being a great girl. Charlie’s adoption fee is $100 and includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
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Gov. Holcomb Makes Appointments to State Board of Education
Governor Eric J. Holcomb today announced two new appointments and two reappointments to Indiana’s State Board of Education (SBOE). All four board terms are effective July 1, 2017.
New Appointments
- Kathleen E. Mote of Madison will serve as a member of the board, filling a vacated term set to expire June 30, 2020. Ms. Mote is interim chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College’s Columbus/Southeast Region.
- Tony Walker of Gary will serve as a member of the board, filling a vacated term set to expire June 30, 2020. Mr. Walker is the Chairman of The Walker Law Group, P.C. and previously served on the State Board of Education.
Reappointments
- Dr. Vince Bertram of Zionsville, president and CEO of Project Lead the Way, will continue to serve on the board. His term expires June 30, 2021.
- Gordon Hendry of Indianapolis, regional leader of CBRE’s Public Institutions and Education Solutions Group, will continue to serve on the board. His term expires June 30, 2021.
The governor appoints eight individuals to the SBOE, each from a different congressional district. At least six of the eight must have professional experience in education, and no more than five of the eight may be members of the same political party.
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THE WHITE HOUSE NEEDS OFFICE HELP
Making Sense by Michael Reagan
Has anyone out there written the book “The Art of the Presidency�
If so, please send Donald Trump a copy. Overnight.
Our billionaire president knows what to say or do when he’s making a business deal or running a big business.
But it’s very obvious he still needs to learn that what is OK to say and do when you’re the CEO of the United States is entirely different.
On Thursday it was painfully clear from the testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey that Mr. Trump needs a lot of help from someone who knows how a president should behave.
Comey’s appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee was no day at Palm Beach for Trump. But it was nothing close to the death blow to his presidency that his enemies in the drooling liberal media had hoped for.
What ex-FBI Director Comey said Trump said and did to him didn’t reflect well on Trump’s judgment or his ability to tell the truth, to say the least.
But at least “The Comey Show†made it clear to the whole country that Trump himself was never the target of an FBI investigation and that, according to Comey, some of the worst news stories about the Trump administration’s Russian troubles in the New York Times and Washington Post based were mostly fake.
Trump’s reign will continue for now and MSNBC and CNN’s ratings will stay high.
But before the president gets himself into another unnecessary self-inflicted fiasco, he needs to quickly find a competent chief of staff.
It has to be someone he respects as an equal, who will stand up to him and who he’ll listen to. Then Trump has to have him —- or her — surgically attached to his hip.
If from Day One Trump had hired a savvy and competent chief of stafflike James Baker III, who served my father, the Oval Office drama between Trump and Comey never would have happened.
If a pro like Baker had been on the job instead of an amateur like Reince Priebus, when Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Priebus to leave him alone in the Oval Office with Comey, chief of staff of Baker would have stepped in immediately.
He would have told Trump it was totally improper to meet alone with Comey. Trump and Comey would never have had their awkward and inappropriate chat and “The Comey Show†would never have been aired.
The lack of a strong chief of staff who will stand up to Trump and make him behave like a proper president is the major source of the problems in the Trump White House.
Until the president finds someone to trust, to respect, and to listen to —- like James Baker III —-things are not going to get any better for him.
Meanwhile, it’s becoming harder and harder to support President Trump, who continues to be his administration’s worst enemy and main saboteur.
Earlier this week I watched him make news by launching twitter attacks on his own Justice Department and the Mayor of London when he should have been talking about his plans to reform the VA health system and modernize the country’s clogged-up air-traffic control system.
It’s clear that after six months on the job he doesn’t realize why he came to Washington.
He needs a chief of staff that will remind him every second that it was not to make news with his morning tweets, fight with the liberal media every day or make his White House staff clean up after his mistakes with their Pooper Scoopers.
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Copyright ©2017 Michael Reagan